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Hello, Pre documentation Metal libraries built using Metal shader converter tools require a device that supports Argument Buffers Tier 2, running macOS 14 Sonoma, iOS 17 or later. If you build a Metal library for earlier OS versions, not all features will be supported. AMD GPUs lack many of the features offered by Apple Silicon and consequently PSOs won't compile (irrespective of Metal Shader Converter). Check the Metal Feature Set Tables for details.

Hi - thanks for asking. My app will download a JSON file which contains a list of image urls which are downloaded and stored in the NSCachesDirectory. I understand the NSCachesDirectory can get deleted by the OS when the app is not running, so on subsequent launch, the app will check for the presence of these files in NSCachesDirectory and will redownload them if they are not available. This has worked pretty reliably in production for nearly two years. With tvOS 26, there are now inconsistent and sporadic instances when the app exhibits behavior as if these files have been deleted. ie. the images are either missing from the playlist page, or the app uses an onboard backup failsafe JSON file to populate a playlist with temporary data if it cannot find or load the JSON file. I suspect something is getting corrupted because once this issue occurs, the only way to get the app to perform normally again is to delete and reinstall the app. Simply relaunching the app will not fix the issue, as programmed in my app l

Hello Kevin, uname -v on my local system shows: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:30:30 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 so I've been using T6020 as the platform when building the kernel. The corresponding xnu source is this tag https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/tree/xnu-11417.140.69 and the KDK is KDK_15.6_24G84.kdk. sw_vers shows me: sw_vers ProductName: macOS ProductVersion: 15.6 BuildVersion: 24G84 So I think that's the right KDK version for this system. I'm guessing the XCode version doesn't matter for these experiments (as long as the build succeeds), but for the record, I'm on XCode 16.4: xcodebuild -version Xcode 16.4 Build version 16F6 Apart from the other build instructions, the primary one I use to generate a DEVELOPMENT variant of the kernel is: export KDK=/Library/Developer/KDKs/KDK_15.6_24G84.kdk make SDKROOT=macosx KDKROOT=$KDK BUILD_WERROR=0 BUILD_JSON_COMPILATION_DATABASE=1 TARGET_CONFIGS=DEVELOPMENT ARM64 T6020 and then to generate a (boot

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Yes, I'm having the same problem (with a wrapped WKWebView, but presumably also the new WebView). The jumping-on-back-button issue was also a problem before iOS 26, but you could work around it by using .ignoresSafeArea(.all, edges: .bottom) However, now in iOS 26, Apple wants the content to flow behind the toolbar, meaning the above fix is no longer suitable. Did you manage to find a workaround?

Happy to help answer some of these! Yes. The Foundation Models framework uses the on-device system foundation model. It's an ~3 billion parameter model designed and trained by Apple. Is the language model provided by FoundationModels designed and trained by Apple? Or is it based on an open‑source model? The exact same on-device model is available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS on all devices that support Apple Intelligence. Is this on‑device model available on iOS (and iPadOS), or is it limited to macOS? No. The general on-device model you access via Foundation Models is not a coding model and isn't suitable for most code tasks. Xcode on Mac has a separate built-in coding model to help with code completion. When I write code in Xcode, is code completion powered by this same local model? If so, why isn’t the same model available in the left‑hand chat sidebar in Xcode (so that I can use it there instead of relying on ChatGPT)? Yes and no. You can give the on-device model access t

This behavior still exists in iOS 26.0.1 and iPadOS 26.0.1 even after upgrading the Apple Configurator host to macOS Tahoe 26.0.1. On every restart, Software Update Complete is displayed, along with: Your iPad has been updated to iPadOS 26.0.1. Your iPhone has been updated to iOS 26.0.1. Followed by the Welcome screen with the Get Started button. (Upgrading the Apple Configurator host to macOS Tahoe 26.0.1 did, however, fix the blank Profiles bug in Apple Configurator Version 2.18 10A23.)

That sample code doesn't show how to create a place from a lat/lng or lookup a place by address, so I'm not sure if it would help my use-case. Even though lat/lng is a 2D point with no heading information, the point were the camera is vs. the requested point creates a line that the camera should be pointing to. The Apple Maps app does this automatically. We're also using Look Around in our iOS app and the heading is calculated there automatically from the same lat/lng we're providing to MapKit JS. See screenshots below: Native app Look Around MapKit JS Look Around

First of all, never use comments for replies. Apparently they don't trigger notifications, for people who use them. But they also don't get noticed at all. WGS 84 is a large and complex standard, among many similar large and complex standards designed for dealing with coordinates on the earth. However, because WGS 84 is such a broad standard, it isn't going to have much practical meaning in more specific contexts like a map display. When it does have a specific meaning, it will typically have some kind of qualifier. It is usually better to refer to EPGS identifiers. Apple Maps is a good example. The Apple Maps display uses EPGS:3857, AKA WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator. But most government and professional mapping systems like ArcGIS use EPGS:4326, AKA WGS 84. You can easily see the difference between these two systems in an image or map. The above references to CLLocationCoordinate2d using WGS 84 is also true, but the significance there is related more

Same problem here. Any solution on this so far? I can hardly imagine Apple removed a disabled tab bar item property?

I get the same thing when Sending HTTP request POST https://apple-pay-gateway.apple.com/paymentservices/startSession +15 seconds for a response